Meditation/Confusion/Love/postive THINKING & MORE....

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler MEDITATION is ur Nature-Concentration is NOT meditation it's CONCENTRATION. Relax/open into UR Nature-let go in freedom; THAT'S MEDITATION.

February 12 at 8:18pm via Twitter · Comment · 

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Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

"A state in which you feel absolutely comfortable, 100% comfort, that is meditation" - Sri Sri

February 12 at 8:26pm · 

Jeff Gregory 

Hawaii is a state... can I meditate there, Dvorahji? :)

February 12 at 10:17pm · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

just the thought of Hawaii is meditation!

February 12 at 10:18pm · 

Jeff Gregory 

Well then, if it's that easy, I'll just think of Tibet! :)

February 12 at 10:32pm · 

Pasupati K Pillai 

I think, Concentration in meditation - looking at the center in between the two brows, start of the nose, is a way to mingle the Soul with the Supreme Soul - the Super Consciousness - the God.

So, when we concentrate the ever thinking, ever jumping mind, our sixth sense, it is just a way to Still the mind and make it thought less and let all other cells of the body figure out its job.

After just 20 mins of concentration, we find that the problems of the Body solved. for example, if a person has Constipation, he can concentrate on a job, and he gets the TRIGGER to go to Toilet and cleanse the body.

Thought Influence, Interfere with body clock and body cell functions, thats why we get Diseases.

So, a little Concentration once in a while is necessary to Silence the Thoughts and direct our Inner Radar to Cosmic rays.

February 12 at 11:19pm · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

With all due respect Pasupati..what you have described (is your understanding). From my perspective this is not TRUE MEDITATION. If this works for you and makes you happy, wonderful. However, I am not interested in Cosmic Rays, constipation, body cell functions, supreme soul, super consciousness or CONTROLLING THOUGHTS....Here's what I advocate for MEDITATION.

Dear Dvorahji:
I have tried countless of meditations and I still have not found any stillness nor the gap between the thoughs? I have heard that as we become aware of the gap between the thoughs the gap increases but I can not even find the smallest gap. It has been said that we have abouth 60,000 thoughts per day. I seem to have those 60,000 thoughts in one meditation. I call it a chaotic meditation and it gets frustrating. Any advice on how can I find even the smallest gap?

Darling One:
From my perspective, most meditations are a waste of time, especially for people like you. Meditation is usually sitting in a disciplined environment, "trying trying and then trying some more to get rid of your thoughts through concentration and finding "the gap" (a truly illusive concept for most people). It's actually at the point when the mind finally let's go, that you can call your practice 'Meditation". Before that point, it should be called, "hours of discipline and CONCENTRATION. BUT Meditation - it's absolutely NOT!.

Now I don't want to cause trouble in the spiritual community, HOWEVER, I feel that here is where many well known spiritual techniques and practices have blown it!. Hours and hours and years and years of sitting and concentrating, waiting for the moment when the mind finally gets COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED, and you finally, finally drop into your own "thought-less" TRANSCENDENT BEING OR in American terms "the gap", (sounds like the clothing store to me).

A true meditation technique should begin where all the concentration ends, it should start at the point of "LETTING GO". It's still a discipline, because you sit down and you stay there for a certain length of time HOWEVER - there is NO CONCENTRATION, only letting go.

It's unfortunate that so many people have been turned off to meditation because all they experience is sitting there and watching a zillion thoughts go by, while looking for that illusive gap! Ridiculous. Most teachers who teach meditation don't have a clue what meditation is.

The good news is " That many more teachers who teach meditation DO!. You need to find ONE THAT DOES, and then for the first time you will experience TRUE MEDITATION.

IF you're interested, my recommendations are:
1. Sahaj Samadhi Meditation - taught through the Art of Living organization
2. Transcendental Meditation - taught through the TM organization (however it's extremely expensive)

And of course, LIFE IS A HAPPENING - and you will FALL INTO "BEING" MEDITATION WHEN IT'S TIME...meanwhile my personal suggestion is find a great meditation teacher with a "letting go technique".

Love Dvorahji

PS. BTW - Thoughts are a part of meditation, contrary to what most people believe...they come and go in formal meditation like they do in life...And what do you do when they come and they go? You, go back to the mantra and there you go "letting go" back into SPACE AGAIN, back into MEDITATION, you Nature. Get a good teacher and if you already have one...go get your meditation checked, you're probably straining.....Happy meditating...Medittion is YOUR NATURE....have fun!

February 12 at 11:48pm · 

Pasupati K Pillai 

what i meant to convey is, if you do anything with FULL IMMERSION, the other positive things happen AUTOMATICALLY.

February 12 at 11:54pm · 

Pasupati K Pillai 

me did TM and practice it now and then.
get Stillness, thoughtless state, Bliss.

My only complaint is, they don't last long.
want to be like Swami Nithyananda 
and Mata Amrithanand Mayee.

February 12 at 11:58pm · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

A person gets cancer then with "Full immersion" meditates, does everything he can to get rid of the disease and dies of it anyway. FULL IMMERSION DOES NOT "always" end in "postive things happening automatically". Many time the negative happens anyway! People meditate, concentrate, doing all their asanas and japa for years and their life is stillWHACK!

From my perspective you do what you can...and know that whatever happens (and it's not always positive) IS WHAT IT IS AND YOU STAY IN PEACE even when it doesn't go positive or "your way" . Effort does not equate with success. Your own experience should verify that.

Sat at 12:02am · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

Pasupati, NOTHING LASTS LONG...Please, READ SOME OF MY POSTS, you've got some basic misunderstandings about thoughts, thoughtless state, bliss...You seem to want that stuff to last and that's impossible...If you're interested in what I have to offer, you need to read my book posts/videos and see if it serves you.

If the Swami is your Guru, better just go deeply into his teaching and do whatever he tells you and leads you to do...Take one path and let it lead you deeply into YOURSELF.

Sat at 12:21am · 

Tony O'Clery 

Yes meditation is not a state as it is beyond the mind.

Sat at 7:45am · 

Patricia Pashia D'souza 

De-light-full

Sat at 8:51am · 

Jerry Harvey 

i agree, she's right. ♠♠

Sat at 2:33pm · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler Confusion leads to growth-Relax, let confusion shake u up as it does it's job-IT's a ride! Everything is fine-doing exactly what IT needs to

21 hours ago via Twitter · Comment · 

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Cathy Ginter

Yes ♥

15 hours ago · 

Mahima Gabriel

What a relief !! and anxiety, too ? and fear, too? when it's for 'no apparent reason' ? :)

10 hours ago · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Yes Yes and Yes! Fear & anxiety are products of the mind and body. Anxious, breath/body starts doing it's thing, fear, the breath/body starts doing it's thing. IT's all very very physical isn't it? Heart starts racing, breathing start going, anxiety sets in. That's why breathing excercises/yoga is so coooL.

Anxious/Fear? Slow down your breathing. If you can't - THEN be anxious for awhile for NO REASON (what choice do you have?) SO WHAT? SO YOU'RE ANXIOUS - Have some milk honey and a big fat banana with a chaser of Valarian, you'll be fine.

2 hours ago · 

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Dvorahji Dvorah Adler "Love for others is the RESULT of SELF-knowledge, not it's cause!"-nisargaddatta......People are always trying to love each other, aren't they? 

But does it work? Do you love your girlfriend all the time? OR your mother all the time? Or your friends/co-workers all the time? Relax with your concepts/feverishness/guilt over Love & BE LOVE. LOVE IS YOUR NATURE.

Yesterday at 9:37am · Comment · 

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Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

I'm always surprised at this madness to try and love each other and then being so irate at ourselves and others when we/they don't. If you would just notice that "love as an emotion" comes and goes like everything else. Love is my Nature, but you don't see me professing my loooooooveeeeeee for everybody by giving them time, or money or invitingthem over, do you? and by the way, I DON'T LOVE EVERYBODY....especially people that bug me or are rude, hurt my feelings or just Yuck me up! Fortunately, I don't hold on to my distaste or negative feelings. WhY? cause those feelings come & go.

HOWEVER, I do acknowledge that LOVE is OUR NATURE and in the big picture, YEA, WE ARE ALL ONE, CAUSE THERE IS ONLY THIS.

So please, do NOT get in a TWIST because you can't love everybody as yourself in a very ordinary way. It's enough you know deep in you're heart that we are all ONE/LOVE without a second and do the best you can in the "love" department

Yesterday at 2:35pm · 

Preeti Prabhu

xoxoxoxoxo love you Dvorahji you are PERFECT :)

18 hours ago · 

Pasupati K Pillai

But in Office people are not loving.
they are surviving by doing lot of politics.
how to make them see the Emotional side?

they also say emotional people are Idiots.
they force you to think Logically
and force you to play games.

15 hours ago · 

Gautham Jeppu

Learn about games people play and how to bust them. Just google or read somebooks...may be this will help
http://www.amazon.com/Games-People-Play-Transactional-Analysis/dp/0345410033

13 hours ago · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Pasupati, it's time for you to start having some fun!!! Your picture is far toooo serious....No one forces you to do ANYTHING...IT'S NOT THEM, IT'S YOUR PERCEPTION...Tomorrow when you go to work, bring everybody who you think is "stopping" you from being happy and "seeing your emotional side", some DONUTS or something yummy to eat at break time. Put a big smile on your face, and for just ONE day, walk into work happy, looking at all those people as if they were "round happy colorful" M&M's candy - just doing their jobs.

For one day , see them walking around in their colorful underwear doing the best THEY KNOW HOW TO DO, AND everytime they tell you what to do, put a smile on your face and say: Yes Sir (and imagine them in their cartoon or hearts underwear). Then chuckle to yourself and REALIZE -----THEY DO WHAT THEY DO AND...YOU DO WHAT YOU DO and that's how the world works....

.....and by the way...If you haven't taken the ART Of LIVING.ORG breathing course, go for it...IT WILL loosen you up, get rid of the stress and make you happy! (and if you have taken it, take the second part and then a DSN course) and you should be good to GO FOR A LONG WHILE! Baby it's time for you to do a little YOGA and breathing....... love you Pasupati, Dvorah-gee! (I wear Mini-Mouse granny style underwear!)

11 hours ago · 

Carla Riechman

Also, put a big smile on your face topped with giggles and laughter. This will help change the picture also. Be one with your giggle.

11 hours ago · 

Irene Harvey

pasupati, i am "seriously" looking forward to a smiling fb photo one day soon. perhaps dvorajhi can lend you one of her hats--you can buy your own mickey mouse underwear:-)

8 hours ago · 

Pasupati K Pillai

ya. i accept that im stressed. and that seriousness in face photo is just outside Shirdi Sai Baba Temple, Shirdi, India.

My face is not always like that. wanted a best click.
Even Shirdi Sai Baba looks so stressed.
But he is worshiped as God.

Jesus, Buddha, Osho all looked so Serious. Rarely I saw teeth in Osho or Jesus or Buddha mug shots.

Lord Krishna, Vishnu pictures show always cool, happy, smiling.

Lord Shiva is always Serious.
because he is Lord of Tantras, Pranava.

So, being serious is no Crime. I laugh. Smile.
will add those pics here soon.

about an hour ago · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

AHHHHHHHHHHHH, Pasupati, I have a profile of a picture of a bald eagle looking right at me on the wall above my desk. And the "caption" under it says: "I AM SMILING!"... and it's hilarioussssssss. So I would say that those "Gurus" picture's said: "I am smiling!" even tho they looked like they were going to pierce right through you........

So from now on when I see your picture, I'll think:
" Pasupati is smiling!"-------But remember, you're friends with me, Dvorahji and I AM NOT SERIOUS....EVER! and laugh at everything especially Osho ( what a sex maniac) and Jesus (getting himself crucified, totally stupid!) and Krishna (and all his escapades with his Gopis) and Buddhas (well Buddha is adorable) and especially Lord Shiva! (What a freak with that snake around his body!)

So in a way, being serious to me IS A CRIME, unless you're smiling inside or at least cursing!

about an hour ago · 

Pasupati K Pillai

Fond of reading News.
News readers cant smile much.

about an hour ago · 

Pasupati K Pillai

Dvora ji.....u do not understand what is Shiva?
who is Shiva? why he carried a serpent? and a river Ganga on his head? u can never learn abt Hinduism.

and y dont u like the Krishna with his Gopis?

I think even if u LAUGH so loudly u don't look Good.
or Adorable.

I have doubts on your Authority on the Domain that you choose to speak - Spirituality.

Life is not always LAUGH. you should be serious to create.
Plants are serious - they produce Flowers which smile.

Bees are serious - they produce Honey - which smiles, smells good.

All the Ecology is Serious. If you seriousness is a Crime - i think u cant produce anything useful.

Don't say Life is meaningless. It has.

about an hour ago · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

I may not understand Shiva, but BABY - I AM SHIVA, AND BABY i have NO AUTHORITY from anyone AT ALL TO SPEAK ABOUT SPIRITUALITY except my own experience!!...SO your best bet is to go to someone who has authority and ABSOLUTELY read the news, be serious and study Hinduism.

Everyone finds his own way...and OBVIOUSLY I'm not your way...There are many great Gurus for you to DELVE INTO and take seriously (and of course your Hinduism is important to you). I suggest you CHOOSE ONE and wholeheartedly completely with no reservation, NONE - go deeply into that Path.

Sending you all my love and blessings (like a MOM not a Guru)- and you can always contact me personally and tell me the "good News" as to how you are doing.

58 minutes ago · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

The thing that has always turned me ON about Shiva - IS THE SNAKE...HE'S my kind of Guy! And Krishna can seduce me anytime, I'm always ready for a little Krishna Leela RASA...and Dvorah means "Honey bee"...and my honey is gathered in Space...In all adoration of those ADORABLE ONES THAT have come before me and offered their nectar....

15 minutes ago · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler Positive thinking, Law of attraction are the INFANT STAGES of spirituality (many old time Seekers are going back to infancy-STOP!) You've stuck your toe into the spiritual pool & find pleasure in the surface. Why not dive IN? Drop all your mind & body manipulations & with open arms DIVE NAKED, NO DEMANDS into the cool vast ocean of PEACE.

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Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

"...Lowest state on the spiritual path is the mumuksha (liberation seeker)...He always tries to get benefit, gains or losses from the body/mind sense..." - Nissargaddatta
p.s. I always thought mumuksha meant "gimme gimme more"....

Sat at 2:11pm · 

Jerry Harvey

ti;s true.....you really know how to empty a room! ♥

Sat at 2:20pm · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

You noticed!!! Jerry you're hilariousssssss!! I'm cackling with delight!

Sat at 2:23pm · 

Jerry Harvey

I never saw anything so entertaining as life. I have to be careful to control my laughter, amusemment and enjoyment around here.

Sat at 2:56pm · 

Deepak Baboota

yehh dive without inhibitions, restrictions and pre judgements - come on when you surface you might be ENLIGHTENED

Sat at 3:07pm · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Or VERY WET! - NO guarentees & take your chances...BUT anything's gotta be better then waiting for that Mercedes, playboy soulmate OR Jesus to come back!

Sat at 3:36pm · 

Carla Riechman

I love reading Dvorahji's commentary. They are always quite witty and full of wisdom. However, if you are looking to put a smile on your face and get a good laugh, go to my Laughter Yoga page. It is guaranteed to make you feel happy.http://www.facebook.com/pages/Laughter-Yoga/196320593085?v=info#!/pages/Laughter-Yoga/196320593085?v=wall
Be one with your giggle.

Sat at 5:15pm · 

Patricia Pashia D'souza

De-light-full

Sat at 9:41pm · 

Lindsay Young लिंडसे युवा

so true.

Sat at 10:18pm · 

Sarita Bindal

100% so true!!!!

Sat at 11:17pm · 

Rajoo Kapoor

the question is how?

Sun at 5:35am · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

So Rajoo, your question is "how to dive into that pool of peace?"--My status is an invitation, a recognition not at order or direction of HOW...Everyone finds their OWN HOW! How are you finding your ocean of peace? Yoga, meditation, teacher, Guru, Sadhana etc are a good BET...AND A little encouragement from Dvorahji saying: "DIVE IN HONEY, THE WATER IS FINE...and relax, you are well taken care of!!"....continue with your life/sadhana, without feverishness or concern...

Sun at 9:52am · 

Rajoo Kapoor

Coooooooool Dvorahji! It was just to tickle you! happy valentine day!

Sun at 11:35am · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

My son is coming over for Valentines DAY and we are going to make another hilarious music video...will post it and drive all of you crazyyyyyyyyy...The title? (I I just can't give it away yet? But you'll recognize it)

Sun at 11:46am · 

Rajoo Kapoor

lovely! will look forward to see it! As usual it will be great master peace!

Sun at 11:49am · 

Alisha Ingles

...;)

Sun at 12:50pm · 

Irene Harvey

dvorahji, you & jerry ought to take that act on the road:-)

Yesterday at 10:13am · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

I'M NOT ACTING!!!!!! and either is JERRRY!

Yesterday at 6:56pm · 

Tony O'Clery

DVora...you sound a bit like UG.

U.G.Krishnamurthi... also maintained that the reason people came to him (and to gurus), was in order to find solutions for their everyday real problems, and/or for solutions to a fabricated problem, namely, the search for spirituality and enlightenment. He insisted that this search is caused by the cultural environment, which demands conformity of individuals as it simultaneously places within them the desire to be special - the achievement of enlightenment thus viewed as a crowning expression of an individual's "specialness" and uniqueness. Consequently, the desire for enlightenment is exploited by gurus, spiritual teachers, and other "sellers of shoddy goods", who pretend to offer various ways to reach that goal. According to U.G., all these facilitators never deliver, and cannot ever deliver, since the goal itself (i.e. enlightenment), is unreachable.[1]

11 hours ago · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

IT IS F-ING UNREACHABLE...AND THAT'S THE POINT EVERYBODY MISSES...hear me...UNREACHABLE....one big unfathomable incredible, unbelievable, AWESOMELY MEANINGLESS MYSTERY...AND THE DEEPER YOU GO INTO THIS MYSTERY, the more mysterious it BECOMES...and for me "enlightenment is your Nature"...is recognizing YOU ARE THE MYSTERY, and somewhere along the line this search to get "enlightened" ends....But that Vastness is more intriguing and STEADY & PEACEFUL & BIGIGIGIGIGIGI and ISSSS - then any search is possible...and it's infinitely OPEN , you can't even say infinite because IT JUST IS and YES YES YES, IT IS YOUR NATURE...

meanwhile, move along, keep moving until THAT SPACE SWALLOWS YOU WHOLE!!!~!!

10 hours ago · 

Irene Harvey

u.g. had a good point, but his negativity got everyone down after a while. dvorahji, on the other hand, keeps the party going. & going. that's it. dvorahji, you are the energizer guru!

8 hours ago · 

Geir Ove Eide

Interesting as always. I was thinking i was greate, since i wanted to be enlightened, it must be the best goal... haha , but in the beginning i think it's okay, then move on. Now i do sadhana, and whatever happends happends, but i do recognize that i have one million thoughts that i will get rid off... but i just do it, and don't think so much about it anymore(sometimes i do). Even Guruji have thoughts right? I do my best at this early stage....hm so the goal is not to Not have thought but to be happy. :) Or do we have any goal?
Confused.... but it's okay hehe

7 hours ago · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Getting rid of thoughts is one of the MAIN THOUGHTS seekers get STUCK on! You will NEVER get rid of thoughts. The mind thinks, that's what it is designed to do. It's like trying to get rid of your breath. Breathing is what your system is designed to do, right?...Thoughts WILL ALWAYS COME AND GO. You can stop thoughts for awhile with breathing excercises, some yoga, Samadhi, etc...But as soon as you begin to walk out of the meditation hall and "wonder where your shoes are" - you're off and thinking again.

Even teachers/yoga teachers/meditation teachers, who have been teaching for a long time, still DON'T GET IT: Thoughts are a part of formally "doing" meditation. Thoughts, mantra, silence, thoughts mantra silence, THEN NO THOUGHT NO MANTRA AND THEN..........OFF WE GO AGAIN, THOUGHTS, MANTRA SILENCE AND ON AND ON....

TRUE MEDITATION which has nothing to do with the mind OR a technique...is 100% relaxation into your NATURE, AT PEACE WITH SELF-YOUR NATURE. Formal meditation will always have thoughts at one point or other and like life you just keep doing it and when it's over it's a great excercise and you feel great or NOT, but at least you "think" you've done something great for yourself and the environment.

I like meditation, and eventually you do get glimpses, (full relaxation) into your Nature...keep mediating, but withOUT this ferver of :"oh I got a million thoughts to get rid of!"....THAT IS the thought that's screwing you up.

Sit down, close the eyes, be stillllll, start your mantra and offfffffffffff you go - until you're time is up. And group meditation are always GREAT!

3 hours ago · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

I actually don't know anything about UG, except he was very eccentric and around at the same time as KrishnaMurti. It's easy to get mesmerized by "uniqueness, and I think UG was supposedly unique in his expression of "his" state, but he wasn't very people friendly and kinda weird and he didn't come from a tradition, I think?

I come from a tradition of HAPPY (let's save the world and make them happy too) GURUS, so it makes sense that I would take that route. Maharishi was happy, but serious about his mission, Sri Sri, is even happier, and also serious about his mission. I'm happy and could basically give a YUCK! BUT still they've trained me to share, share share, and there really is nothing more fulfilling that knowing that someone is happier then they were before and recognizes that they can really DROP ALL THAT NONSENSE they've been carrying around - cause LIFE IS A HAPPENING AND IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT IT WOULD.

I leave Enlightenment up to the BIG GURUS, I'M here to move you along until you're SWALLOWED UP BY A BIG VAST INFINITE BOA CONSTRICTOR THAT DOESN'T LEAVE ANYTHING BEHIND!

YOU KNOW, you have no recourse but to eventually come home and relax, absolutely none!!

2 hours ago · 

Tony O'Clery

A quieted mind doesn'nt think...

2 hours ago · 

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

WHATEVER!....BEING DOESN'T THINK!..SILENCE DOESN'T THINK, you ask me a question and THINKING TAKES PLACE...MIND NOT MIND, WHAT DOES IT MATTER...IT only confuses everybody into "thinking" they shouldn't think, that thinking is a big faux pas! WTF! from my perspective LET THE MIND THINK! You be Happy in your Nature. (that's my advise, from my perspective & language)....

2 hours ago ·